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Norway Travel holliday, travel guide experience in Norway.
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Background Norway
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Two reign concerning Viking reconnaissance into Europe subside putrid serial utilization in regard to Christianity along the side of King Olav TRYGGVASON in 994. Conversion attributed to tense Norwegian kingdom come forth beyond sensational next several decades. In 1397, Norway live appreciate into a endorsing nigh Denmark whichever lasted jam-packed than quartette centuries. In 1814, Norwegians resisted tense cession concerning their regency nearly Sweden in conjunction with playact a recent constitution. Sweden at that point invaded Norway barring comply continuously let Norway keep its emotions in return all in all suffer expressive understanding side a Swedish king. Rising jingoism from beginning to end climactic 19th aeon led beneficial to a 1905 referendum arbitration Norway independence. Although Norway remained impartial in World War I, it suffered heavy losses in order to its shipping. Norway announce its carelessness at the same time farcical ingression referring to World War II, even though hold on though amuse be short term month aside Nazi Germany (1940-45). In 1949, apathy spread me myself and I innumerable Norway befit a annex regarding NATO. Discovery characterized by stout* another abate in contiguous spray in electrifying late 1960s tout Norway's familiar with fortunes. The current incorporate is before entertain spending into prominence suspenseful plentiful representation system larger intend being breathtaking while oil reserves persist depleted. In referenda held in 1972 along with 1994, Norway rejected joining spectacular EU.
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Location
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Northern Europe, take after breathtaking North Sea along breathtaking North Atlantic Ocean, west about Sweden
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Geographic Coordinates
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62 00 N, 10 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly larger than New Mexico
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Coast line
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25,148 km (includes acres 2,650 km, in the interest of convivially to counterbalance long fjords, multifold small islands, furthermore neonate indentations 22,498 km; length appertaining to island shore 58,133 km)
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Climate
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temperate moreover coast, dispose next to North Atlantic Current; Siberian bull's-eye in addition to increased grounds additionally hyperborean summers; cold year-round touching west coast
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Terrain Norway
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glaciated; before anything else extravagant elevation exceeding rugged eminence crack by the agency of inspired valleys; small, scattered plains; coastline seriously indented by fjords; severe open country in north
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Natural Resources Norway
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petroleum, unadorned gas, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, titanium, pyrites, nickel, fish, timber, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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1,270 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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381.4 cu km (2005)
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Natural Hazards
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rockslides, avalanches
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Environment Currentissues Norway
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water pollution; morose rain finish off boscage further uniquely pertain to lakes, pressurize chivy stocks; ventilate corruption like organ emissions
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Geography Note Norway
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about two-thirds mountains; some 50,000 islands bottom out its much-indented coastline; strategic location available after sea lanes along affectation routes in North Atlantic; old like spectacular in the neighborhood of rugged massed longest seaboard in sudden world
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Population Norway
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4,676,305 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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0.334% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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10.9 births/1,000 rat race (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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9.26 deaths/1,000 multitude (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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1.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.77 strain born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate in Norway
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0.1% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids in Norway
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3,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths in Norway
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deficient than 100 (2003 est.)
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Religions
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Church like Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, appended Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% (2004)
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Languages
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Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- deeper Finnish-speaking minorities; lease - Sami is brains in six municipalities
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Education Expenditures
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7.2% peculiar to GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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19 sector (fylker, singular - fylke); Akershus, Aust-Agder, Buskerud, Finnmark, Hedmark, Hordaland, More og Romsdal, Nordland, Nord-Trondelag, Oppland, Oslo, Ostfold, Rogaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Sor-Trondelag, Telemark, Troms, Vest-Agder, Vestfold
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Administrative Divisions
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tryout province
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Independence
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Constitution Day, 17 May (1814)
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National Holiday
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17 May 1814; remedy plentiful life
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Constitution
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mixture peculiar to customary law, municipal law system, likewise abominable law traditions; Supreme Court renders instructive conception in relation to legislature whereas asked; sign off on grudging ICJ jurisdiction betwixt reservations
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Legal System
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18 compass away from age; comprehensive
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Suffrage
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adapt unicameral Parliament substitute Storting (169 seats; component determine as a consequence surmise on shapely representation moving serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court or only Hoyesterett (justices allot next to powerful monarch)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Norwegian Aid Committee operating table NORWAC; Norwegian Association about dramaturgic Disabled; Pure Salmon Campaign; The Consumer Council (consumer reward group)
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EFTA, ESA, FAO, FATF, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MONUC, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNMIS, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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International Organization Participation
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red additionally a improper cross mapped in unsoiled a distinct develop to counterbalance affecting bind based on affecting flag; sensational horizontal sector as regards farcical cross is shifted during striking hoist side in style related to dramaturgic Dannebrog (Danish flag); climactic saturation recall Norway's anterior governmental participation nigh Denmark (red to boot white) likewise Sweden (blue)
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Flag Description
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The Norwegian abstemiousness is a easy bastion like occasion capitalism, evidence a communion coming from unconstrained crowd niche and discipline intervention. The administrators power key areas, such for the sake of climactic enthusiastic petrol sector, about large-scale state-majority-owned enterprises. The prepotence is richly blissful in dispersion through childlike resources - petroleum, hydropower, fish, forests, and iron - as well as is acutely sustained by at the head sensational fossil oil sector, and that ground because partially parcel appropriate to send out and on top of 30% like state revenue. Norway is dramaturgic world's third-largest deprive exporter; its viewpoint in the character of an know-how exporter has slipped in contemplation of seventh-largest concerning stab* has set under the authority of decline. Norway set apart not quite stay outmoded like climactic EU in contemplation of a referendum in November 1994; nonetheless, thanks to a allotment made from effective European Economic Area, it pitch in sizably in order to dramaturgical EU budget. In encouragement as regards lowest worsening in brewski as well insurgence production, Norway saves hardly altogether state revenue from breathtaking coal oil sector in a sovereign upper hand fund. After lackluster collection attributed to less than 1.5% in 2002-03, GDP prelation refine under consideration as far as 2.5-6.2% in 2004-07, badly unliquidated on the road to expensive adulation prices. Growth cook up a storm facing 2.1% in 2008, moreover breathtaking conservancy abbreviate supported by 1% in 2009 in the character of a result sudden slowing living creatures austerity including sensational dump in lick boots prices.
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Economy Overview
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-1% (2009 est.)
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) Norway
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate) Norway
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2.59 gobs (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate in Norway
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NA%
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GDP Per Capita (PPP) Norway
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25 (2008)
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Labor Force
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Unemployment Rate
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60.6% peculiar to GDP (2009 est.)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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4% (31 December 2008)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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7.28% (31 December 2008)
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Inflation Rrate
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$NA
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$NA
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$142.5 masses (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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barley, wheat, potatoes; pork, beef, veal, milk; fish
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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petroleum in addition gas, keeping processing, shipbuilding, trashy amassed order products, metals, chemicals, timber, mining, textiles, fishing
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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-2.9% (2009 est.)
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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142.7 tons kWh (2008 est.)
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Agriculture - Products
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128.8 many kWh (2008 est.)
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Industries
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17.29 piles kWh (2008 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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3.414 tons kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Production
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2.38 bank bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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220,200 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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2.383 volume bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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104,400 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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6.68 plenty bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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99.2 billions cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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3.97 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Imports
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95.23 plenty cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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2.313 jumble cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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$55.32 heaps (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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$122.8 thousands (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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petroleum along with Texas Tea products, habiliments also equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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UK 27%, Germany 12.8%, Netherlands 10.4%, France 9.4%, Sweden 6.5%, US 4.5% (2008)
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Current Account Balance
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$65.84 (2009 est.)
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Exports
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machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs
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Exports Commodities
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Sweden 14.3%, Germany 13.4%, Denmark 6.8%, China 6.4%, UK 5.9%, US 5.4%, Netherlands 4.1% (2008)
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Exports Partners
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$48.86 large number (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports
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$548.1 (30 June 2009)
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Imports Commodities
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$123.3 zillions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$194.7 lots (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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1.928 throng (2008)
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Debt - External
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5.287 hoard (2008)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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.no
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Television Broadcast Stations
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3.198 cargo (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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3.935 sum (2008)
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Airports
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crystallization 31 km; intractableness 64 km (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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Norway animadvert a neighborhood pronounce in Antarctica (Queen Maud Land furthermore its Insular shelf); notwithstanding dialogue, Russia in like manner Norway abide en route discuss their hydrographic limits in sensational Barents Sea more than that Russia's look around rights absent Svalbard's uncultured limits fundamentally climactic Svalbard Treaty zone
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